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This letter presents a continuous probabilistic modeling methodology for spatial point cloud data using finite Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) where the number of components are adapted based on the scene complexity. Few hierarchical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Kshitij Goel , Nathan Michael , Wennie Tabib

Voronoi intensity estimators, which are non-parametric estimators for intensity functions of point processes, are both parameter-free and adaptive; the intensity estimate at a given location is given by the reciprocal size of the…

A variational Bayesian inference for measured wave intensity, such as X-ray intensity, is proposed in this paper. The data is popular to obtain information about unobservable features of an object, such as a material sample and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Akinori Asahara , Yoshihiro Osakabe , Yamamoto Mitsuya , Hidekazu Morita

Probability theory has become the predominant framework for quantifying uncertainty across scientific and engineering disciplines, with a particular focus on measurement and control systems. However, the widespread reliance on simple…

We present a method to transform multivariate unimodal non-Gaussian posterior probability densities into approximately Gaussian ones via non-linear mappings, such as Box--Cox transformations and generalisations thereof. This permits an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-14 Robert L. Schuhmann , Benjamin Joachimi , Hiranya V. Peiris

Statistical shape modeling (SSM) directly from 3D medical images is an underutilized tool for detecting pathology, diagnosing disease, and conducting population-level morphology analysis. Deep learning frameworks have increased the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Jadie Adams , Shireen Elhabian

Counting objects in crowded scenes remains a challenge to computer vision. The current deep learning based approach often formulate it as a Gaussian density regression problem. Such a brute-force regression, though effective, may not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Yuehai Chen , Jing Yang , Badong Chen , Hua Gang , Shaoyi Du

Gaussian process (GP) regression is a non-parametric, Bayesian framework to approximate complex models. Standard GP regression can lead to an unbounded model in which some points can take infeasible values. We introduce a new GP method that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-04 Didem Kochan , Xiu Yang

We introduce Probabilistic Gaussian Homotopy (PGH), a probability-space continuation framework for nonconvex optimization. Unlike classical Gaussian homotopy, which smooths the objective and uniformly averages gradients, PGH deforms the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Eshed Gal , Samy Wu Fung , Eldad Haber

Compressive sensing is considered a huge breakthrough in signal acquisition. It allows recording an image consisting of $N^2$ pixels using much fewer than $N^2$ measurements if it can be transformed to a basis where most pixels take on…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-02 Marc Aßmann , Manfred Bayer

We present an imaging technique that allows the recovery of the transparency profile of wavelength-scale objects with deep subwavelength resolution based on far-field intensity measurements. The approach, interscale mixing microscopy (IMM),…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-21 Sandeep Inampudi , Nicholas Kuhta , Viktor A. Podolskiy

Learning-based lossy image compression usually involves the joint optimization of rate-distortion performance. Most existing methods adopt spatially invariant bit length allocation and incorporate discrete entropy approximation to constrain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shuhang Gu , Jane You , David Zhang

In the context of dynamic emission tomography, the conventional processing pipeline consists of independent image reconstruction of single time frames, followed by the application of a suitable kinetic model to time activity curves (TACs)…

Applications · Statistics 2018-08-28 Michele Scipioni , Stefano Pedemonte , Maria Filomena Santarelli , Luigi Landini

The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

Weak lensing mass-mapping is a useful tool to access the full distribution of dark matter on the sky, but because of intrinsic galaxy ellipticies and finite fields/missing data, the recovery of dark matter maps constitutes a challenging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Niall Jeffrey , Jia Liu , Jean-Luc Starck , Ken Osato , Tim Schrabback

We consider the estimation of an i.i.d. (possibly non-Gaussian) vector $\xbf \in \R^n$ from measurements $\ybf \in \R^m$ obtained by a general cascade model consisting of a known linear transform followed by a probabilistic componentwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher , Michael Unser

We present a family of \textit{Gaussian Mixture Approximation} (GMA) samplers for sampling unnormalised target densities, encompassing \textit{weights-only GMA} (W-GMA), \textit{Laplace Mixture Approximation} (LMA),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yongchao Huang

Estimators for $n$-point clustering statistics in Fourier-space demand that modern surveys of large-scale structure be transformed to Cartesian coordinates to perform Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs). In this work, we explore this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-05 Steven Cunnington , Laura Wolz

This work presents an approach for automating the discretization and approximation procedures in constructing digital representations of composites from Micro-CT images featuring intricate microstructures. The proposed method is guided by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yanran Wang , Jonghyuk Baek , Yichun Tang , Jing Du , Mike Hillman , J. S. Chen

We study adaptive sensing of Cox point processes, a widely used model from spatial statistics. We introduce three tasks: maximization of captured events, search for the maximum of the intensity function and learning level sets of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Mojmír Mutný , Andreas Krause